Inking reel



. A ril 28, 1936. A. o. BECKMAN INKING REEL Filed May 8, 1934 I Inventor 0 By 6 zlllarneys A as Patented Apr. 28, 1936 UNITED STATES INKING REEL California Arnold o. .Beckman, Altadena, Calif., assignor, by mesne assignments, to National 'Iechnica} Laboratories, Pasadena, Calif., a corporation Application May a, 1934, Serial No. 724,517

2 Claims. (01. 191-111 This invention relates to a reel provided with means for maintaining a ribbon wound thereon supplied with a suflicient amount of inking substance.

-I t-is one of the principal objects of this invention to provide a reel with means which will act to maintain a new ribbon ,wound thereon supplied with a suilicientamount of inking substance to prevent impressions taken therefrom .when used in a typewriter, adding machine, or other printing device, from gradually becoming lighter in quality of color. In other words a color quality of impressions printed through the ribbon will be of substantially thesam'e high standard of quality throughout the life of the ribbon. By the use of this reel the life of the ordinary inking ribbon is increased many times.

A further object is to provide the reel with means which will quickly, and, of even more importance, evenly distribute the inkingsubstance' fully understood from the following description of the-accompanying drawing.

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' Figure 1 illustrates a perspective of the invention. 1

. Figure 2 illustrates'an end-view of'Fig. 1'.

substantially in the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 2 of the'device after the ribbon has been removed therefrom. Q V

In a referred embodiment ofthe invention as shown in the drawing, a spool or reel I maybe 'of'the usual for-mused in typewriters or other ribbon printing machines. The reel may be structed of pressed metal and may include cen- 45 ter hub 5, andv spaced side flanges i'fast d tovthe opposite ends of the hub. The particular construction of the reel is not a feature of this invention and it maybe 0! any of the common types now in-use on such machines.

The means for supplying the ribbon woundv upon the reel with an substance may include an absorbent disc I' suitably fastened to the While Figure 3 illustrates asectional view taken with any suitable ink substance which mayor not include a color matter.

Now the device is ready for use and may be preferably employed witha new ribbon, however, an old ribbon may be re-inked by winding it upon 5 the reel.

As the ribbon is slowly wound upon the Spool the edges thereof will contact with one or both of the moistened discs I, thus the edges of the ribbon will become moistened and by capillary attraction the ink substance will spread across the full width thereof and in this way the ink substance will be evenly spread along the entire length of the ribbon. The wrapping of the ribbon uponitself, while being wound upon "the 15 spool, will also assist in an even distribution of the ink.

v The ink feeding disc lmay be remoistened with the ink substance from time to time as needed.

From the above description, it will be appreciated that my re-inking reel will maintain the ribbon fully inked whereby the impressions taken therefrom will be of uniform color quality throughout the life of the ribbon.

It has been found in actual practice that a ribbon used in connection with my invention will have a useful life many times that 'of a similar ribbon when used on the ordinary spo'ols, and by applying the ink substance to the edges of the ribbon, the ribbon does not become overly saturated with the inking substance, which is an important feature of this invention.

Having fully described a preferred formof the invention, it is to be understood that the foregoing description is for illustrative purposes only and I do not desire to be limited by any of the de-. tails shown or described, except as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. An inking reel having spaced flanges-for receiving therebetween an inking ribbon, and provided with an inking disc mounted upon the inner face of each flange for feeding ink to each sedge oi the ribbon, each of said inking discs-presenting an unbroken surface to the adjacent edges of the ribbon. 1

J 2. An inking reel having spaced flanges for receiving therebetween an inking ribbon, and

provided with ink feeding means associated with each flange for feeding ink to the adjacent edge 50 vof the ribbon, each of said ink feeding means prer '.:sentin 'g an unbroken surface to the adjacent inner face of each of the IeeLflanges. A felt:

1 disc has been found to be ideal for this purposer' 5 The absorbent discs may next be moistened, i, I

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